craigcu12 diary

shakinaces

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One of these nl10 regs I who was on a bad run did get some advice from me on why he might be getting these losses and went on to offer him some tips on ways he can get back to winning ways. Posted by craigcu12

Was the advice to play 85o like a boss?

craigcu12

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Posted by shakinaces

this reg didn't get much advice on playing these types of hands but when i was speaking to another nl10 reg on a bad run, it got me thinking maybe these are the types of hands that give you the best cash because boy was their lot of extremely unlikely winners getting lucky the worst of them was when a donkey went DB48p/C£1.48 J98, DB£4/C£AI £7 with A8 on a board J98 6cc, disaster comes on river when he'd got 8 killing my AJ.

my play when IP is going excellent with huge amounts of pots getting won, the issue seems to be when i'm sitting out of position, I don't know weather i'm just getting so much bad luck, should i be intent on seeing people fold on turn when my equity of premium pairs will have got much weaker or if i should actually be just keeping these pots much smaller and maybe doing a Ch/R on turns?

shakinaces

Just keep playing lots of pots in position!

I think at the lower levels it can make a lot of sense to keep pots smaller when out of position and only holding 1pair, unless you have notes on your opponent to say otherwise.  Don't think it's even a bad thing to just c/c as a lot of players are too passive to barrel like crazy with worse and will just fold their bluffs anyway if you c/r.

Probably worth playing a really tight range as well.  I'm about 15% open UTG but that's probably way too loose at these levels when you get lots of calls behind.  I'd guess even as little as 7-8% opening range wouldn't be terrible.

craigcu12

having played poker in a more calm and relaxing way, i've managed to make winnings prize rather than a loss, there might have been a couple of moments every now and then butthe majority of my game was fine. luck itself was most certainly a very friendly thing for me, on a master cash table I had an event which got me going all in preflop with AK having tried to 4bet squeeze and force the  calling station to fold, but as he didn't fold the pot went 3way AK vs A9 vs KK, knowing already i'm down to 1 out, I was on the verge of standing up but the flop itself came down A106cc and having Kc he himself was down to 1 out and as his 1 out didn't come, my poker day managed to continue on for the rest of the evening, going on to win £45.05 and suprisingly shakin, it didn't include an 85o 9 times out of 10 it was premium hands.

craigcu12

Today has had more time spent in MTTs that it had spent in cash, it started off with an hour of nl10p but after an hour i decided to call an end due to so much lagging, I did spend another 3 hours playing 888poker cash and in them 3 hours i finished $0.44 better off. In that 1 hour of sky cash poker, Having made £40.55 in that 1 hour of sky poker cash, i decided to take an MTT session during the evening, first I played the 1K BH at 6:45 and came out with a total of £6.24+3.76, I did have a bit of unfortune time in that when a limper got sneaky with QQ, a short stack had shoved and when the limper calls that jam I go for defence by rejamming my own stack with 99. as £5.75 MTTs are viewed as worthy ones, I choose to use my cash prize to have and attempt in the main event, having got off to an awful start with just 1600 chips left when blind were 40/80, i was thinking it would be ending early, then I made a double up with KQ against a gambling 43, as th MTT went on, i began to see myself with great chance of finishing past bubble as my chipstack was 30K, then came an awful sickener when i'd hero called a shover wityh top pair on a turn J977 having put him of a straight draw or flush draw, it was the correct call but sadly for me the river card came Q giving K10 a straight, still it wasn't all bad news, I might hav exited the MTT 8 places away from bubble but i did gain £51.32 in heads.

total for the day is £52.30

craigcu12

Today can only really be described as a day of chasing and after the way things have been today, the issue started when I opted to try the semi for sundays main event, the thing was this is a much larger price semi than those that occur any other day and unlike saturdays main event direct entry, today was a day when i'd not played on cash tables therefore the £24 looked like a huge dent into my BR and I ended up attempting another semi direct sat and also spent £9 in All in sats but that itself was only tiny fraction of what was originally planned, having failed to get into the main event, I played on cash for the rest of the evening and having made enough cash to have what looked to be still a winning cash day, all it took was a couple of sickeners and bad beats putting a dent into those great cash stacks to make me feel disappointed to see so much good play go to waste. In the end it was my own fault and knowing I can get an average of £43 per day from just cash, i'm thinking I might as well avoid most MTTs altogether, all I shall play is the £7.20 Bh main event semi and if i've made a great amount in the early hours, i'll do 1 direct entry into a main event BH.

total loss today was £49.53

craigcu12

I might have said in my thread done yesterday that i'll be avoiding all but semis and main event MTTs this month, well having just found out about the health of dale (flyingdagg) himself is in, i've decided to play in DTDs for the whole of this month as respect to this great commity member and any cash I make from these DTDs will be gifted to the sir bobby robson foundation charity who fight against cancer themselve, just incase I don't make any cash in these DTDs throughout the month, i'll still be willing to give him any of the cash made from these new reward freerolls and also the cash i get from the points themselves.

The poker itself didn't get off to the greatest of start, Iknew for certain the main event would need me to pass bubble of semi which didn't go too well having ran my KK into AA. Having  not made my way into the main event and knowing my current day stood at a loss of £24.36, my challenge was to see if i could get break even during the rest of the night.  Whilst playing the MTT itself, i did play some cash tables and things seemed to have changed for the better already with me getting  11 profitable hands over £1 and only making 3 small losses over £1+. After exiting the semi, I turned my attention to cash alone including 2 mastercash tables both of which saw me exit with a chipstack twice as big as entry having got on the good side of coolers. Shame this cash session wasn't my early one as it would have made £51 giving me the chance to enter the main event.

my overall total for the whole day is  winning total of £35.16.

craigcu12

Today  I can only really feel ashamed of myself for choose to do it in the first place. 12am I was intent on getting up off my chair and going to bed but the temptation of getting so much money from calling stations tempted me to remain up longer 12 tabling purely and simply premium hands but this went on to back fire because although they will be a good thing long term they can an annoyance short term and as this was a one of it is short term thing, having 9 tables probably doesn't help itself because i'm even more likely to have more bad beat. If my day has been a good one then this type of thing probably will be fine but when the day has been like a roller coaster as was the case today, I should have just left at 12ppm with a loss of between £5-£10 instead of getting that bit extra which leads me to instead gain a loss of £60

craigcu12

Tonight is a night i will not want to remember, noon was going great and saw me gain a cash winnings of £23 then came the evening and I went chaotic, right at the very beginning I went on to lose £20 on a master cash table, I wasn't that fussed about this hand, in the end i choose to play it like I did and he was the reg, the damage came when I played the wrong type of game against calling stations,eventually going on to loose all my C4P bonus! I was forgetting that now is a time where tables get very passive, calling stations and fish are abuntant, cbetting won't work as much and bluffs will hardly ever be done by them. As the night went on I started getting highly emotional, doing more and more mistakes soon i was of the belief to start limping myself.

When I realize my BR was almost as small as it had been before the C4P bous, i jumped off the table and ask a nl10 reg for tips on how he seemed to play during these hours, I myself had given this play some advice on how to make better use of position and taking advantage of fit fold style players and thought maybe he could advise me on these who are hard to make fold flop.
having had this chat with him i was beginning to understand how many mistakes i had and ways to help inprove my game, best of all was it allowed me to calm down.
 
If you read my diary mate Cheers pal, i'll attempt to put this into action tomorrow

craigcu12

Although I didn't update my diary, I did have a poker session yesterday even, overall i had lost £10.42 the majority of it coming during the final hour when QQvs88, AK vs Q10o JJ vs K10o, KKvs J7s QQvs J10 failed to remain ahead, the great thing this time was I could see right away, my game wasn't going well and emotions were now getting the better of me, so i got up had a chat with another player before going to bed, so instead of losing 15 buy ins i lost just over 1 buy in (10.69)

My total made for today has been a winnig total of £5.46, it begin with tabnle dynamics being much tighter and respectful than a nl10 normally is, as many as  seats were occupied by people i see reegularly, overall that session itself saw me lose £13.48, therefore i went into the evening session already down and that too was the most thrilling of starts having lost £20 in quik sucession when QQ goes AI against AA and JJ ran unfortunate against a maniac jamming A9s, had it not been for the set of jacks that won my cash back from this maniac, i'd have probably quick much earlier.

craigcu12

not much in term of poker today, had a short session during the noon having got back from my cycle ride, that session itslef had made a small loss of £4.98, what i decided to attempt this evening was a few DYMs as they are simple and most days should made these small prizes but not today, 5 minutes into the DYMs i was starting to feel tired and went on to lose in 5 out of 7 DYMs overall this created a total loss of £24.78, weather or not i play anything tomorrow depend on how this weather is and how i feel once I return from a 50 mile cycle, in one way i could be extremely relaxed just what is needed for poker but in another way I could be too tired.

craigcu12

just what is it with me and time, the other day, i was rushing due to real time seeming to go too fast, today i was rushing with decisions leading me to call over the odds when the timer itself had been going too fast, again i've lost 10BB having got myself in a huge muddle with timers leading myself into a worked up mood where i was rushing decisions.

craigcu12

nl10 has been going on a bad run at the minute and with bad runs comes emotional reactions leading to more mistakes and more losses, my intention over the next few days shall be totally nl4p tabling whilst getting myself back to normal. usually my sessions don't start until 3pm but today I tried to give myself an early session and as it showed itself that nl10 isn't very good, having played on thm tables, I made a loss of £27.89, rather than getting so wound up over these losses, imoved oer to nl4 and managed to relax myself in no time. Soon things were going very good again and all in all I made a winning total on nl4 of £30.07. after the nl10 loss is subtracted I finish with a toal of £2.18 but this was still great and proves nl4 is better off ATM.

craigcu12

my evening session has been another 12 nl4p tabling, it didn't exactly go to plan this having saw myself lose £6.99 but overall it was still good play. I was about to call it a day when the TV channel finished but choose to try  spending another on the table, but the very first few minutes of evens got me to step up right away before tilt kicked in because as time itself would be against me mistakes would start kicking in.

Overall today was a loss of £4.81 the majority of which was down to them nl10p and 8p.

craigcu12

Today was another day of nl4 but had a different approach to it, rather than playing 12 tables at once, i stuck to no more than 6, during then early hours of that session things weren't lucking so good but as time went on i began to get a clearer picture of the table dynamic and players themselves allowing me to gain chip stacks that were over twice the entry limit. at 9pm a disconnect on my modem had messed up some of my tables as by the time i got back online i was booted off the table and wouldn't know which one it was,

My overall total for the night was £11.52 but i get the feeling it could have been larger had i remained on those same tables

craigcu12

today i had two sessions overall and they showed a totally differnt outcome, you could describe it as just one session because the break itself was just 15 minutes but i'll deem it two having seen the difference they had.

The first session was a long one 3 hours in total so you'd be thinking this is where i made the better cash but it happened to have actually made the least cash 55p. The second session of the day was a much shorter one but suprisingly this made £16.75 telling me there were certainly mistakes made in that first session. 

The amount of hands gaining more than £1 were certainly equal with 10 each session gaining 10,unlike most nl4 cash todays saw me only playing on 4-6 allowing a better reading and it was certainly helping my decisions.

craigcu12

My football team Newcastle united might still be on this awful run but I myself have finally got my poker game back on track and weather that poor run was due to high micro stakes rake, extreme tilt or just a totally poor run, the answer is unlikely to be seen as i've now discovered a new set of nl10 tables on poker stars which seem easy to dominate, these tables aren't as loose as sky tables but they are still very pasive my game is working wonders on it at the minute.

I'll not be giving up sky altogether, MTTs will still be getting played and some DYMs too.

LARSON7

Good to see the diary back again Craig!

Regular updates pls.

craigcu12

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Good to see the diary back again Craig! Regular updates pls.
Posted by LARSON7

That post I did was initially my final post sort of like an annoucement but I suppose I could still keep it going and could include my cash game progress i'll be doing onpoker stars.

craigcu12

Following my final bit of poker before taking that long break away from sky I did take all my cash away. My poker BR overall wasn't fully removed because poker stars itself still had it's BR kept in the account and having begun my return with some cash on poker stars itself. During the first day or two it looked a much more boring but as then I found a web page describing an unusual poker fish. I had a good read about this type of fish and sunnedly got the sence that these were the type of fish on stars and through a bit of ajustment to my game i've found my BR increasing by an average of 200BB ($0.05/$0.10) a day.

poker stars cash seemed an easy game to take cash away but I still wanted to spend some time on sky and it's the MTTs and Sit &  Go which are my sky poker games. I had made a £30 deposit  Monday thinking it'll be good enough knowing i've got that main BR was based on starsbut my game today might have told a slightly different story Sit&gos alone don't seem to be so bad but If i'm going to play an MTT I'll have to just keep very limited playing just  £2.30 BH, DTD orford and timed ones.

craigcu12

Think I might have learned something today- Whilst tournaments and cash at the same time can be bad enough, I'd say having cash tables on a different site altogether might be taking it too far because as well as the difference in gaming dynamic i've also got totally different tables so my mind had been far to focused on the sky UKOPs free roll therefore i lost total focus on the pokerstars cash and have gone on to lose $40 in just and hour before getting  myself knocked out at the very last minute of the UKOPS free roll when I tried to attempt just playing 1 cash table.

The TPT and £2.30 BH + some DYMs will be the main game tonight. If I get knocked out them two early i'll have some cash time.

craigcu12

I've just exited The £2.30 BH MTT finishing in 12th place I might have took things too loose when right at the end with a K10 for the chance of a head, as a whole but that one piece of bad luck with K10 v K2o can't get in the way of what some might descibe as the most lucky MTTs when it comes to hands dealings for prior to the first break when I had four pocket queens one of which became a set, 1 pocket kings, an AKs that hits it's set and a 77 getting a set as well, all that was missing is an AA which might have been waiting for a later time which came when it's usage was to double up a stack against QQ.

craigcu12

The way my game was going with with the micro turbo DYMs i choose to go for a mini BH rather than a £2.30 one, this might have looked ok when I was winning what i'd been winning in those DYMs but it wasn't because although this had looked good to the bare eye it was only r eally making up the cash i'd lost when playing a timed MTT and £5.50 HU omaha hi lo to get the points I still need for theUKOPs freeroll.

My exit in the mini itself didn'ttake  long to occur due to an AA running into a set, I still had £2 remaining and that too was not going to last too long when i'd exited the 3 turbo DYMs  could still buy.

I've made another £5 deposit tonight and what i'm aiming to see happen tomorrow is this cash get's doubled or tripled purely through 25p+5p 50p+5p  and £1+15p turbo DYMs tomorrow.

My time on pokerstars itself had started well itself it's first session of the dayhad alot more hero callers than usually seen and combined with standard preflop 2AI losses it saw a bit of damage coming to me. Know i still had time for poker in the evening and as much as the sky BR itself was gone, I didn't get me that fussed knowing all along these will see lots of negative days before a positive one so I took myself back across  onto the other site and say that session go far better with a great cooler coming on a deepstack where i'd held straight to A and he has the topset, weather or not it was enough for to fully recover that loss i'm not sure but will be very close.

craigcu12

The challenge wasn't as easy as first expected and due to a poor start it dropped to £3.65.  Knowing SnG alones would be difficult and cold take ages I'll transfer a few pounds across from stars if it's cash run was good enough and will transfer £100 across for the UKOPS itself.

craigcu12

Been a few days since my last update, nothing poker related just a busy few days and very little time free for poker.

The DYMs all seemed to be in my favour to day 20 were played overall with me passing the bubble on 17  (9/9 25p+5p+ 8/11 50p+10p).

These challenges i give myself really do need some extra though being put into them because when looking at my stats today it's clear to see that even attempting to double my cash via DYM is hard when playing it at a careful pace. My cash prior to these was £3.20 and after a 100% win on 25+5 along with 77% win on  50p+10p I still only just got my cash doubled on the final one.

I do like giving myself difficult challenges but my real challenge is to start doing things in a realistic manner rather than a high risk manner.

Star poker hasn't been played yet i'm going to give myself a go on that and my challeng to make a $10 cash win during my 4 tabling on nl$0.05/0.10

craigcu12

My poker stars cash session has managed to uncrease my BR by another $10 but I i'll still put it down as a poor cash table night because whilst $10 looks good I'd say it was partually helpe by 2 out 2 preflop coolers going my way and then a maniac getting back into winning ways at the very end.

The first hour of my game didn't have much of a problem, the damage began to kick in when i'd just lost a gambling move i'd taken from an aggressive AI with 88 against the 50BB opponent. I still was at a winning even after those 50BB were lost but now wondered if i'll be making many more of those mistakes in the time that was left.

craigcu12

My poker BR might looked to have made an increase but the money spent going to watch the movie crimson hill would have been better of getting added to my bankroll. If it's romance movies you like then this is a movie for you but if it's horror movies you might as well buy scooby doo cartoons even thgey'll have more scaryness.

When returning home from an awful movie day i was preying my poker night itself would have better time, I might like horror and scary scenes in films but in poker I prefer hands with less of s fright risk on later streets and it was a nice certainly a night with more than expected. My aim at the beginning was to attemt to make between £2-£3 along with 20 point by playing DYMs along side !K free and that £2.30 BH using free token. The  total I managed to make overall was £7.70 DYMs (6/8 30p 8/9 60p and 1/1 accidental £1.15) give me £3.95  were 17 played over all, of those 6/8 30p, 7/8 60p and also 1/1 £1.15  which was entered accidentally this alone made £3.95 Making £3.95 cash from these alone was more than i'd expected but an extra £3 was won in the £1K freeroll and i'd also got 75p from a head prize won using my free token which altogether saw my BR double itself again.

A doubled BR and AAv AA being won by me with the flush, is there a poker spirit?

craigcu12

Today my Br remains very much the same as it was yesterday, The cash itself has dropped by £3 but that was money i used on football accumelators one of which still has the chance of giving me a return prize of £24.

Todays UKOPS freeroll was for the omaha and the structure of it tells me i might have a decent chance of gaining £55. I managed to break it through into the semi today but in the semi itself i'd went out when my AI value bet didn't have such luck avoiding those cards it needed too which were just the 6 required to give opponent better straight.

I haven't bothered with star poker today nor did I bother with it yesterday. Tomorrow after noon I might return to it just depends on weather or not i'll have enough time between watching the recorded sunday supplement and goals on sunday and the actual time the toon kick off.

craigcu12

After missing out on poker yesterday through celebrating a newcastle victory "at long last", i've been playing DYMS for long that previous days and if i'm not going to head across to cash poker i might as well continue doing so because these micro DYMs are proving a great way to bankroll build.

I'd managed to play 12 30p turbo DYMs and 9/12 had me passed the bubble so i've increased my BR by 90p on these and as tesco would say every little helps.

The addional DYMs to play along size the turbos allowed me to play a total of 21 60p DYMs and of those 15/21 got me passed the bubble so i've made a total of £2.40 on these.

Considering how easy i've found the 30p and 60p DYMs i'd went on to play a numbe of £1.15 micro DYMs thinking these too will have the simular types of people aas the rest and based on todays outing it seems to prove the case. 8 of these were played overall and of those only 1 didn't get the bubble sucess so i've made a total of £4.80 out of these.

I had thought to begin with that a £5.50 omaha hi lo could itself be worthy of an attemt too in the belief that these will still make out a cash win weather i'd did it in PLO or not but when adding these up now i'll think again.

My overall poker has today made my BR gain another £3.30 from DYMS play an extra £1 from free and i'll be giving it another £10 deposit to night as well to help assist in making it well enough for the UKOPS micros. 

Tikay10

Enjoying this Diary, Craig, & you have a nice style of writing which flows nicely. You seem to be doing pretty well in the poker, too.

Keep it going.